Yusef Salaam of the “Exonerated Five” on His Prison Reform Activism and His New Book, ‘Better, Not Bitter’

The Ringer, May 27, 2021: Yusef Salaam of the “Exonerated Five” on His Prison Reform Activism and His New Book, ‘Better, Not Bitter’

Yusef Salaam appears on The Bakari Sellers Podcast to talk about how the false conviction shaped his life and later his activist work, what inspired him to write his new book, and more

Additional reading:

Yusef Salaam’s Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice on bookshop.org

NPR, May 26, 2021: Central Park 'Exonerated 5' Member Reflects On Freedom And Forgiveness

The Innocence Project on Yusef Salaam

Vulture, June 13, 2019: Where the Key Figures From When They See Us Are Now

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